Except I’m not branding them as racists. I’m branding them as silly with a possible side of insensitive. The blonde with the eyeliner goatee and her friends could totally be cool with everybody. I didn’t even say that anyone in the pics shown was directly in what I would consider blackface. My original statement was a…

Got it. I’m an idiot for pointing out that, in general, black face is terrible and offensive and that, specifically, I doubt that there was not one incidence of black/brown face at this particular gathering. Clearly I must bow - but not offensively - in the direction of someone who is clearly smarter and better than…

Blackface is always bad. Actually any (insert color) face is bad barring the occasionally legitimate setting. White Girls is not that setting - that movie is terrible. If none of these folks went full black face, good. I take back my skepticism. I stand by my first comment, though, that donning the skin color of an…

Fine I won’t accuse them, I’ll just give them the side eye for likely engaging in idiotic, possibly insensitive behavior that ultimately doesn’t matter in the larger scheme of things. Happy?

I focused on black face because, for me, that’s always more problematic no matter when/where it happens. Cornrows, Ebonics, fake gold teeth - those things irk me but don’t immediately mean card carrying racist. Black face actually makes me angry and I am highly skeptical that no one - absolutely no one - was in…

What pitchforks? Since when is pointing out that dressing up as a racist caricature and then taking pictures is stupid and offensive the equivalent of a pitchfork-level outrage. It is stupid and offensive. Sorry if I’m not inclined to just give them the total benefit of the doubt because there’s no pictures of someone…

To your knowledge. Unless you were there, you can’t say with 100% validity that no one was in black face. No one in the released pictures was in black face but the argument is still valid. Don’t use black/brown/red/yellow/white-face as part of a costume unless you want to be thought of as a insensitive, regressive,…

Then hopefully there won’t be any pictures of anyone slathered in tanner to look more Armenian but I have my doubts. And the argument still stands - black/red/yellow-face are unnecessary and offensive.

When will people learn that you can dress as a black character/celebrity without having to do black face? Surprisingly cosplayers frequently manage to dress as nominally Asian characters without taping their eyelids all of the time. And when will people learn not to post their racist/sexist/whatever-ist shit to social…

You didn’t kill your cat. Kallie is right. Kidney issues are a big problem with cats and, often, there isn’t any thing that you can do to stop the inevitable. Sometimes all you can do is just do your best to make your kitty comfortable. I lost one of my cats to kidney failure last year. We tried everything - special…

What’s funny-ish/sad-ish is that I’ve heard people make jokes about Wendy Williams being transgendered or, rather ‘she’s a man, haha’. So you’d think she might be just a tad bit sensitive to transgendered issues and maybe not be just as much of an ass as the people who joke her. But that would require a certain degree…

That’s a sad excuse for a costume and I hope no one wastes real money on it. First, the pizza slices are minuscule. Proper pizza rat needs a giant ass slice of pizza. Second, ‘sexy’ dress and heels combo? Boo. Grey leggings/leotard, pink tail, rat ears and some grey shoes = way better costume. Draw on some whiskers…

Yes Carol501, let’s talk about how you’ve moved forward despite racism against the Irish being the legal and accepted up until 53 years ago. Let’s talk about how much your physical features have made it well nigh impossible for your to blend into the dominant culture. Let’s talk about how hard the Irish continue to…

The problem is that you can’t assume. Considering how much of an effort there seems to be to soften the perception of slavery in these books, there’s every possibility that the reality of the slave trade wouldn’t be discussed. Will the rest of the chapter discuss how tribal groups were purposely separated to keep…

It’s not just a restaurant or retail phenomenon either. I’m a social worker and I frequently have clients and family members tell me how, back in the day, they used to get x, y, z and how I’m being a total bitch for not getting that for them now. They refuse to understand that 1) times change and not every program is…

Black people have a long-standing fear and mistrust of ‘the government’ but the current crop of Teapartiers or whatever we’re calling them take fear and mistrust to whole new levels. It used to be only the fringe lefties and righties believed in a full on slide into ultimate fascism complete with re-education camps.

What, you’ve never seen those plentiful gummy trees?

I’m kind of meh on the Lamilly dolls in general. I get the idea behind them - an alternative to the usual fashion doll - but she just seems sort of boring and generic despite having scar and tattoo options. I still may buy one to have her as part of my doll collection though. Normally I still to black dolls though I…

The site has a black doll coming up so there’s that. Ages ago when I was really into doll collecting there were a couple of specialty companies - one was Integrity I think - that seemed to specialize in non-white dolls but I’m pretty much out of the loop now. Personally I’ve always found it hard to find a non-white…

All of the nurses and patient care technicians at my dialysis clinic have stethoscopes. The RNs use theirs to check vitals, the PCTs use theirs to check fistulas and grafts. One of the docs that sails through doesn’t even wear one, just borrows one from a nurse or tech. I assume Joy Behar has never had her vitals…